Deepak Chopra Quotes

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values my parents brought to their own relationship and to their children. They wanted my brother and me to find out what we were best at and make the most of it.

I'm a traditionalist, a family man. I love my kids. I believe I have brought them up the right way. They are all very different: they have different drives, different ambitions. They are never going to be me. They are going to be themselves.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

You're always trying to impress your parents regardless of how old you are. And when they're gone, there's nobody to impress. But I think my parents would be proud of me. My father has been gone for 30 years, and by the time he passed away, I was a lawyer. I hope he would be impressed.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.

Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.